Birmingham Health Check Uptake Analysis
The following analysis estimates the uptake of NHS health checks across ethnicity for all of Birmingham and includes breakdowns across general practice (GP) and primary care network (PCN).
Patient-level data for all NHS Health Checks in Birmingham from 31/05/2023 to 29/05/2025 provided by the Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit.
OHID estimate that there in 2024/25 there were 286,569 people in Birmingham who were eligible for an NHS Health Check. There are 473,961 people aged 40 to 74 who are registered to a Birmingham GP. This implies that 60.5% of residents aged 40 to 74 are eligible for an NHS health check. While this percentage will likely vary across factors such as ethnicity and socio-economic deprivation, as a simple approximation we can use it to estimate the number of residents in each ethnic group who are eligible for a health check.
Combining the number of patients who received a health check in the last two years with the estimated number of patients eligible, we can calculate the differences in health check uptake across ethnicity. This was done at a Birmingham-wide level as well as at a GP and PCN level.
All code for this project is publicly available on GitHub.
Birmingham NHS Health Check Uptake
Total number of health checks in the last 2 years.
The figure below shows the total number of health checks performed in Birmingham the last two years for each ethnic group. The ethnicity of the patient was unknown or could not be attributed to a 2021 census category in 14,797 (19.6%) cases.
The figure below shows the estimated percentage of the population who were eligible that received an NHS health check in the last two years. Across all of Birmingham, an estimated 26.3% of eligible patients received an NHS health check in the last 5 years (shown as a black dashed line below.) This is above the two-year target of 20%.
GP Uptake Demographic Explorer
All counts between one and five have been suppressed and are presented as 2.5.